Thanks and I will read your sitch. My h went for a woman 4 years older who has 3 kids like him. Similar ages too, ours are 7 10 and 12. I feel he has traded in one family to go another and when the honeymoon period ends life continues with its problems etc. It is the way he has changed that I find hard to deal with, so cold hearted and cocky which is someone he was not before all of this, but guess she is pulling his strings. She has been here before she is divorced and doesn't have a great track record from what i have been told so will have to wait and see.